After a six year cycle through all Alpine countries the
Annual Conference and Committee Meetings of the
Mesoscale
Alpine Programme (MAP) did return to Bavaria in May 2001. As before
a balanced blend of selected oral presentations and well exposed poster
presentations provided an up-to-date overview of the latest achievements
within this truely international research activity.

Schliersee is the name of a small lake,
situated at the northern edge of the Bavarian Alps, and of the picturesque
village
at its northern shore. Kurzentrum Schliersee is a modest, though spacious
conference centre directly at the lake shore, including a large lecture
room, foyers for poster sessions, a restaurant
(with a grand terrasse overlooking the lake), and a public swimming
pool in an adjacent building. During the 1990ies this facility hosted
four international 'Stratospheric Ozon Conferences', each with more than
300 participants ("Prost!" think two of them
in 1997).

Schliersee is situated about 25 km east of Bad Tölz
(the venue of the first MAP-meeting in
1995) and some 60 km to the south of Munich, from where it can be easily
reached by frequent trains services (about one hour journey). During the
intermediate season of May accommodation was available in all
categories from four-star-hotels to private guesthouses or holiday appartements.

Three impressions: As in the years before the conference atmosphere
was pittoresque, tranquil and flowerful;
the chairmen of the IGP (Gutermann, left)
and the newly formed MSC (Bougeault, right) overlooked the scene with sympathy; finally
the programme chair (Hoinka, right)
relaxed with a beer and listened to comments from Italy and
Spain. Fotos courtesy of Agusti JANSA.

The book of
abstracts can be downloaded
(700 kB) as it was distributed
in print at the MAP-meeting.
A compilation of extended abstracts was
prepared and distributed by MeteoSwiss as MAP-newsletter
no. 15 by the end of June 2001.

List of participants:
Updated list (Html-Format) of the 145 participants
(to download the respective doc-file click
here)
Group photograph:
Download pdf-file (2 pages)
with faces, numbered outlines and a name list of the 126 person crowd
(hints concerning the 9 as yet unidentified persons are most welcome to
Hans.Volkert@dlr.de ).